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I'm becoming convinced that the "Microsoft is a good guy now" narrative was just a narrative, they still are the same company they always were.
by noobermin 4y ago
I'm becoming convinced that the "Microsoft is a good guy now" narrative was just a narrative, they still are the same company they always were.
- capableweb 4y agoThen you're wrong, Microsoft (or any company for that matter) have never been like people that you can judge like "good" or "bad". They are businesses, whose purpose is to make money. They do whatever seems best to do at the time in order to optimize most money earned. The same every single public company does, all the time.
- Karunamon 4y agoThis is pretty reductive since businesses are made up of people who can make good and bad decisions. The "maximize shareholder value" imperative has never been successfully read so strictly against a company that it prevented them from pursuing other goals; as an example Tim Cook rather infamously told an Apple activist investor representative that they should "get out of this stock" "if they only want them to do things for ROI reasons" [1]. So no, we can and should hold the companies accountable for the bad they do and praise the good. [1]:https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rejects-politics-of-the-ncppr-suggests-group-sell-apples-s https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rej...
- JonChesterfield 4y agoYou can definitely judge a company to be bad. Nestle is the second one to come to mind. You judge the company on its actions.
- Vrondi 4y agoCompanies cannot be good guys or bad guys, because they are not guys. They are conglomerates that exist as a legal tool to make money. They are whatever makes money right now. That is all.